Word: fish
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...name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In newspaper photos of missing girls from the seventies, most looked like me: white girls with mousy brown hair. This was before kids of all races and genders started appearing on milk cartons or in the daily mail. It was still back when people believed things like that didn't happen...
...name was Salmon, like the fish: first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973." Go ahead, read it again. Almost everything that makes The Lovely Bones the breakout fiction debut of the year--the sweetness, the humor, the kicky rhythm, the deadpan suburban gothic--is right there, packed into those first two lines, under pressure and waiting to explode...
...with his typically dry sense of humor, at the recent shareholder meeting of Liberty Media, the onetime TCI programming arm that Malone has turned into a mini-media conglomerate. "We're trolling. We've got our bait in the water, but so far we haven't landed any big fish...
...Chai's place serves up top-notch Dai food?dishes like beef fried with lemongrass, crispy dried sheets of riverweed and grilled snakehead fish with tamarind?as well as all the Thai standards. And if you're game, he'll pour you a generous measure of snake wine from a vat stuffed with coiled serpents and regale you with tales of his adventures...
...MIROSLAV KLOSE, 24, GERMANY At week's end, he was a contender for the World Cup's Golden Boot, with five goals including a hat trick against Saudi Arabia. But there remains some doubt that the Kaiserslautern forward is merely a youthful fish in an otherwise aging German pond. Nevertheless, strikers are valuable and will always command good prices. VALUE: $12 million, up from $6.5 million...